I have to wonder if the writers really have enough of an engaging plotline to last multiple years. Somehow, I don't see Jedi Treasure Hunts and fights with Space Vikings having a lot of narrative longevity...this isn't exactly NJO, where the writers were detailing the next big conflict in the Star Wars Universe and centering the plot around a giant mystery concerning the enemy faction.
This is probably going to be the writers spinning their wheels and dropping eye-rolling world-building Easter Eggs in place of a real story...in fact, since Charles Soule is involved, that's almost exactly what this is going to be. His Darth Vader comics are just literally that, with a dash of cringe-inducing anime melodrama.
Anime usually has better plots than the crap they put out nowadays. Plus, times of peace are rarely what people want to see in Star WARS. I mean, the stuff we usually get comes in times of war, and in the Republic's long 25,000-year history, war was kind of rare. There's the stereotype that the Sith have always been their enemy, but the Sith only invaded the Republic when the latter was 20,000 years old. How many centuries-how many MILLENNIA, came and went without a major galactic war? At least a dozen, perhaps more. And we barely hear about them because this series isn't called Star Peace, it's called STAR WARS.
They'll probably try to justify everything from Exogol to the stupid dice thing from the Sequels, and they'll probably pull plot twists for shock value like they do in the Vader comics.
Why even do the "High Republic"? Why does it have that name? You have thousands of years to work with and you choose 200 years before TPM? It's so silly and confining. The creative decision to limit yourself in that particular way is inexplicable. You can't even use Yoda as an anchor for the audience to follow as he matures into who we meet later seeing as he is 600-700 years old already? So it's just new characters(which is fine as an idea but considering who is writing they will be shit) encountering forces which simultaneously cannot be the Sith(unless they break canon which would be one of the more retarded things Disney has done) but kind of have to be Sith related due to time constraints. Why choose to tell a story with such a tiny window of successful execution?
Because they want familiarity. It's not like the KOTOR era where you actually have to create conflicts on your own like the Jedi Civil War, the Mandalorian Wars, the Dark Wars, etc., they want a time period where they can control the story. Unless they bump into the Rule of Two Sith, or at least goons of said Sith duo, they cannot have Sith around. Unless they're going to go with some breakaway Sith clan that may get wiped out in the course of the story, which, would depend on how it's executed to show its plausibility.
I really hate the British accent=evil trope, but there was something magical about all the professional Imperial Navy officers being more English than the Royal Navy.
I'm saying this because I fucking hate how the Empire, which according to one of the Rogue One writer dipshits is a white supremacist organization, is now a melting pot that looks ridiculous.
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Ah whatever. The consoomers can keep Squadrons, I already own TIE Fighter and it's still as good today as it was 26 years ago.
It's funny, really. Wasn't the Empire formerly a chauvinist organization as well? When you find a woman leading them, she really had to prove herself, the way Thrawn had to prove himself because he was an alien in a human-supremacist empire. Now they put in women all over the place, which is kinda funny-Disney canon portrays the Empire as the bad guys, and they want to make the bad guys look progressive and feminist?
Because they want to pretend that the years immediately preceding TPM weren't years of decline. They want to rewrite history to frame republicanism as something other than the midwife of degeneracy.
The mommy issues faggots on Reddit made a thread trying to explain why Star Wars toy sales are down. They hit on every possible explanation except the obvious, which is that the sequel trilogy is boring and ugly as shit. Typical.
The big explanation they came up with is that toy sales everywhere are down. They didn't mention that toy sales fell by like 4-5% in 2019, whereas Star Wars toy sales completely tanked. The toy industry decline isn’t enough to explain Star Wars’ failure, but Star Wars’ failure certainly is big enough to explain the larger toy industry decline. Every other franchise could have grown by 4-5% and Star Wars’ failure could still have made up the difference, easily.
They'll probably depict the Republic as an SJW paradise, and that the Jedi were at their best defending that paradise of social justice and diversity. Even though at most, in the Prequel films and Expanded Universe stuff prior to the Clone Wars, it was a capitalist/libertarian/commercial republic more akin to Venice which heavily relied on trade routes and big corporations like the Czerka Corporation and the Trade Federation to make the big bucks. The Republic that Lucas created would have a bigger hatred for Communism than we ever did. Their guardians of peace and justice are a bunch of religious monks, corporations have representation on the Senate, and their country's lifeblood runs on capitalism. Maybe High Republic will try to undo that and portray the Republic as some kind of socialist utopia.
Toy sales aren't down by much. Whenever I see toys of good quality, they have a tendency to disappear quickly as collectors and children pick apart the aisles. It's just that SW toy sales are down because the people who usually buy that stuff were alienated by all of Disney's chest-thumping about how they don't need male fans anymore. Which ironically bit them in the ass since these guys usually spend the most on toys.
I think they went with the British accent thing because most of the cast *was* English, iirc. I think I remember Lucas having an explanation about it but it's been so long that I've forgot. Besides, the accent sounds very haughty and that's the personality most Imperial officers and higher social ranking citizens had.
There was also the very American slant the Rebels have as part of their character, and portraying their enemies as British-speakers not only likens said empire to the wealthy and the powerful, but it also brings callbacks to the American Revolution: a bunch of plucky guerillas being the heroes fighting against an empire dominated by guys with posh British accents: that's as patriotically American as you can get back in those days. That, and the Rebels were as American as a double-cheeseburger with bacon and a side order of fries and Coca-Cola: you have the farm-boy hick who would be at home in the American farmlands, the cowboy who would be at home in the old west, the socialite princess who would be at home in 1920s New York, and most Rebel soldiers walk, talk, and act like American troops, not to mention their propaganda was all about the fight for freedom. Having guys like that going up against a wealthy, powerful empire with a large navy whose officers all speak in posh British accents is basically a repast of the American Revolution. It gets even funnier with the British Royal Band played the Imperial March, as if they recognized that they were part of the inspiration for the Empire that Lucas created for his films.
